Models perform at a booth in the Taipei World Trade Center building on Thursday, Dec. 8. The performance was one of many promotional events that companies with booths at the Taiwan IT Month fair put on to attract potential business partners and customers.

A wild short-eared owl caught in the bird net at Kinmen Airport in mid-November is seen in this photo taken in Kinmen on Thursday, Dec. 8. After discovering the bird, which is an endangered species, the airport handed it to Kinmen County government for medical care and rehabilitation. The bird was released into the wild on Thursday afternoon.